When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets carrying Starlink satellites were launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California (at left) and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on March 13 and 14, 2026. | Credit: SpaceX SpaceX launched…
A collaborative research team has uncovered a previously unknown mechanism of action of yaku’amide B, a structurally complex peptidic natural product derived from deep-sea sponge found in the waters near Yakushima Island, Japan. Natural products often exhibit multifaceted biological activities due to their structural complexity, interacting transiently with multiple biomolecules. Yaku’amide B was previously shown…
If you ask me, the 1980s and 1990s were the golden age of action films. However, everyone knows the classics from the 20th century. If we start the clock at the year 2001 or later to give newer films a fair chance, how do they rank? This is my attempt at putting up a scoreboard…
Cerebral blood flow is essential for normal brain function and often perturbed in neurological disease. If one shines a source of coherent light on perfused tissue, the detected speckles, or “grains” of light fluctuate, or “dance,” at a rate proportional to blood flow in the volume sampled by the light. In brain tissue, this concept…
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Some 3D printed objects need to be stronger than others. Weight-bearing items like hooks and brackets require a bit more thought before they’re sent to the printer, which is a simple case of arranging them differently on the build plate. Your 3D prints are weakest at the layer lines Filament deposition modeling (FDM) builds items…
It’s hard to believe that all dogs came from wolves. But in fact, every breed from the pug to the chihuahua to the Great Dane started as a type of grey wolf that’s now extinct. It may have started around 30,000 years ago, at the end of the Pleistocene, when certain wolves cozied up to…
March 14, 2026 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Fresh claim of making elusive ‘hexagonal’ diamond is the strongest yet After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of carbon By Mark Peplow & Nature magazine Conventional diamond, called cubic diamond, is known…
Greenhouse gas emissions in Germany have again missed targets set by the Climate Protection Act and barely fell at all in 2025. Emissions decreased by just 0.1% last year compared to the previous year, according to data from the German Environment Agency. The country’s emissions in 2025 were equivalent to 649m tonnes of CO2, worse…
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. How do we get the fingerprints we have? – Oscar V., age 8, Somerville, Massachusetts Fingerprints are those little ridges on the tips of your fingers. They’re essentially folds of…
